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The return of Spanish football club Alavés to La Liga this season "has meant a jump in the team's expected revenue for '16-17" to €49.3M ($52.3M), with an expected profit of €8.3M ($8.8M), according to Luis Fuentes of MUNDO DEPORTIVO. The club's TV revenue this season "has mult...

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Chinese internet company Baidu Inc. "denied reports that the firm," or its billionaire chair Li Yanhong, "are involved in a deal" to buy AC Milan, according to Panja & Ramli of BLOOMBERG. China state broadcaster CCTV said that Li was "part of a group" close to acquiring the team for $437M. ...

Aston Villa Owner Tony Xia has "registered a new company with links to the health food market ." Xia, who took over Villa last month, "has used part of the club's name in the new venture" -- Vicvilla Healthy Food & Nutritional Biotechnology Ltd . Villa Dir Jamie Banfill is "also lis ...

Bundesliga side FSV Mainz "is set to break the €100M ($111M)-revenue mark for the first time in club history," according to Kathrin Hartmann of SPONSORs. The club is expected to announce it generated revenues of €104M ($115M) during the ' ...

After "many months of doubts," an agreement on Barcelona's shirt sponsorship deal with Qatar Airways "is practically a reality," according to Moisés Llorens of AS. The "only thing left is to make it official." The club "is working with its game calendar" to see when to officially confi ...

The total being demanded in complaints brought by La Liga players for non-payment by the end of the '15-16 season dropped below the €1M ($1.1M) mark for the first time. The 165 complaints received by the end of the '14-15 campaign fell to just six. Due to the different criteria of the alleged a ...

League Championship side Leeds United has been ordered to pay former academy welfare officer Lucy Ward £290,000 ($390,000) "following her employment tribunal victory against the club," according to the London GUARDIAN. Ward "successfully pursued an unfair dismissal and sex discrimination case ...

A “record amount of bets” was registered in France for the Euro 2016 final, adding up to €29.6M ($33M), according to Boris Teillet of LE MONDE. The number was “almost equal to the sum” of €31M worth of registered bets for all 31 matches of Euro 2012. Four years late ...

Barcelona made a document available to its members on Tuesday "in relation to the pact agreed with the tax authorities regarding the signing of Neymar" in '13, according to Ivan San Antonio of SPORT. In the document, first revealed by Manifest Blaugrana on its Twitter profile, "the club admit ...

Surprise results in the first half of the Euro 2016 tournament "gave a boost to second-quarter profitability at GVC Holdings Plc, the online bookmaker that more than doubled in size with the takeover this year of Bwin.party Digital Entertainment Plc.," according to Paul Jarvis of BLOOMBERG. The Isle ...

Asian mixed martial arts promoter One Championship has secured an investment from Singapore-based investment company Temasek. The MMA promoter did not reveal the percentage stake of the investment, only describing it as a substantial eight-figure amount. Wednesday's investment will put One Champions ...